theprof00 said:
Meh, 1.5m is still really too big...especially for October. The comment about MS own stores was just a joke. Even with online distribution (not including their own stores or Best Buy kiosks) they could only possibly hold 100k, and that's with an anticipated price drop which is very unlikely until holidays (still too early). Even all those stores, if they had 100 consoles each, it would only be a million. Seems like far too much doesn't it? My guess is each one has ~10 with enough distribution supply for 1-2 complete turnovers, which equals about 300k +50k or so for wholeseller stores like costco/BJs. If I had to guess, assuming they pushed out more consoles early (in order to focus on xb1 production), with enough supply for ~25 per store world wide, and 80m as of October 17th, I would say numbers are in the area of .4-.6m undertracked, and roughly 900k to 1m in retail channels. |
I pretty much answer this in my reply to kowenicki so for the numbers I'll direct you to that post. But I think you're right about shipping 360s/ PS3s early for the holidays. Probably not for production purposes but rather for shipping space though.